- Industry: Financial services
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A method of approximating a price or yield that is unknown by using numbers that are known.
Industry:Financial services
An investment company or mutual fund entitled to borrow capital for its operations. Also, an investment company that issues both income shares and capital shares.
Industry:Financial services
Puts limits on the quantity of certain products that can be legally imported into a particular country during a particular time frame. There is a Fixed quota, which is a maximum quantity not to be exceeded, and tariff rate surcharge, which permits additional quantities but at much higher duty.
Industry:Financial services
The practise of using a second broker in a securities transaction, which is considered illegal it is if used to generate additional commission.
Industry:Financial services
A lease arrangement under which the lessor borrows a large proportion of the funds needed to purchase the asset. The lender has a lien on the assets and a pledge of the lease payments to secure the borrowing.
Industry:Financial services
A development strategy followed by many Latin American countries and other LDCs that emphasise import substitution-accomplished through protectionism-as the route to economic growth.
Industry:Financial services
A trust created between living persons. Antithesis of a testamentary trust.
Industry:Financial services
A portfolio that includes risky assets purchased with funds borrowed.
Industry:Financial services
Arrangement by which investors who receive a dividend also receive a tax credit for corporate taxes that the firm has paid.
Industry:Financial services
Effected when payment and receipt both occur within the budget, or when payment is made from off-budget federal entities whose budget authority and outlays are excluded from the budget totals.
Industry:Financial services
